Brainiacs, Donations and Baseball

Nine Nittany Lion Track Athletes were recognized by the USTFCCCA (yeah, can you believe the length of that one!) as Academic All-Americans for the past season. Congratulations to everyone! They are:

1. Megan Duncan
2. Cheryl Spring
3. Ryan Foster
4. Jay Pagana
5. Bridget Franek
6. Kim Hanslovan
7. Dennis Pollow
8. Clarence Smith
9. Emma Smeltzer

Also, the Idiot Officers conferred via electronic means to assess the overall monetary repercussions of our recent foray into ineptness! What we found was extraordinary. The best year ever for our efforts. Thanks to everyone who came to the event and even those who donated to our efforts in the past year. We are certainly hoping for even bigger things to come once Barney Frank fixes the US economic woes.* Our gift of $250 to Coach Groves was in turn passed on to the Scholarship Fund in his name! Thanks Coach Groves. We also sent the Scholarship Fund another $600 via Ken Brinker, who we hope can join us next year! Still another $600 went to the Friends of PSU Track and Field. That leaves Keeper of the Cup, Harry Smith with $100 to secure the engraving of this year's winners. It leaves me, the Herder of Cats, with $700 for web site maintenance, herding of more cats, and procurement of goodies for next year's tourney. All donations are appreciated and are destined for the betterment of the entire group!

Those with bare arms are encouraged to donate a little to obtain a wrist band in order to enter our contest. Those with bare bodies can donate a little more to obtain one of either of our t-shirts. (Please send before and after photos!)

And finally, a trip to a ball game yielded me up close encounters with Brooks Robinson, whose first pitch put Obama's* to shame, and P. J. Rose (aka Pete Rose Jr.). P. J. hit a walk-off grand slam for the York Revolution last week while down by 3 runs in the bottom of the ninth!

*Continual political references have no place on this blog.